By Yocoy

Description

Taxi-Book is your travel and city guide to *30* Chinese cities, a way to speak and talk in Chinese with locals without internet connection, with free versions for Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It provides a big talking English Chinese dictionary and helps English Chinese translations with talking phrasebooks in its full versions.
It is made to help you travel in Chinese cities and make your trip in China comfortable. Taxi-Book talks to Chinese taxi-drivers who can bring you to your destinations.
The available cities are: (all full versions provide speaking and talking function for Chinese)
Beijing 北京 (free Lite version)
Beijing 北京
Changsha 长沙
Chengdu 成都
Chongqing 重庆
Dalian 大连
Dongguan东莞
Foshan佛山
Hangzhou 杭州
Harbin 哈尔滨
Guangzhou 广州 (free lite version)
Guangzhou 广州
Guilin 桂林
Lijiang 丽江
Kunming 昆明
Nanjing 南京
Ningbo宁波
Qingdao 青岛
Sanya 三亚
Shanghai 上海 (free lite version)
Shanghai 上海
Shenyang 沈阳
Shenzhen 深圳 (free lite version)
Shenzhen 深圳
Suzhou 苏州
Taiyuan 太原
Tianjin 天津
Wuhan 武汉
Wuxi 无锡
Xi`an 西安
Xiamen 厦门
Yantai 烟台
More cities are coming soon!
The app also features dialogue options for talking with locals in Chinese. Note that you may fill gaps in the phrases using our English-Chinese dictionary containing more than 12,000 words to create your own phrases. For example, in a restaurant you may say "I'm allergic to ... (select/dictionary). Could you make this dish without it?" in perfect Chinese. Some phrases also feature likely answer options that the dialogue partners may choose as a reply.
This free app comes with free versions of four cities. In the free version, e.g., the Beijing city guide contains more than 500 locations in China's capital. And if that's not enough for you, just upgrade through buying the full content of Beijing to unlock more than 1,500 locations and speaking function for all dialogues.
Taxi-Book also offers more city guides for all key Chinese cities for hotels, restaurants, banks, sightseeings, hospitals and administrations etc. And if you don't feel like browsing through the lists, just use the fast search option on each city's home page to find the locations you are looking for.
Note: Buying another city means you pay just one time and can use it forever. There are NO HIDDEN COSTS.
Features:
- Locations: Hundreds of locations divided into 10 categories are featured.
- Locations come with detailed information like English and Chinese name, address, phone number, and GPS coordinates.
- View locations on Maps and find nearby places easily (requires online connectivity). You can also add your own locations, enter and save their data if you have discovered a new place that is not covered in the app.
- Once you've chosen a location, press the Taxi-Card button to bring up a simple yet effective page that allows you to tell a taxi driver clearly where you want to go. Show the page to the driver and shake the phone to make it pronounce the phrase with your desired destination.
- Taxi-Card: Choose between different color styles to customize the page to your liking.
- Dialogues: Special dialogues for use in a taxi situation like "Turn on the meter, please" or "How long will the ride take approximately?"
- Basic Phrases: For everyday situations to say things like "Hello", "Thank you", tell others your name or ask where the restrooms are.
- Favourites: Pick your favourite locations out of all the locations and add them to your favourites list for quick and easy access.
*Please note that while the app is designed to work in offline mode, using Map view and buying in-app purchasable content require internet access.

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Reviews

Horribly outdated

1

By robaird66

Essentially meaningless in every way imaginable.

Out of Date - Inaccurate

1

By Rahbuhbuh

The app is practically useless. It is terribly out of date in every category. You will waste money having taxis take you to places no longer in business. You will waste money because the places you want to go are not listed in the app.

Taxi Book

1

By Thumper1960

This used to be my go-to taxi app for China. Lately when the taxi card is pulled up to show the driver , the address in Chinese is missing. It only gives the name of the place in English. The "voice" function is also not working anymore. I hope the makers of Taxi Book fixes this bug soon!

Very helpful

4

By Mongolian Heat

Very well thought out and extremely useful but as others have said, there are many popular locations that are not included and many places of which have either closed, moved or the cost has changed. Needs more updates and more tourism locations in many cities as well as updated telephone numbers. Regardless, has definitely been an extremely useful tool and has helped me out of many jams here in China.

Outdated

3

By tunneljunkie

It's a very well thought out app that could be very useful if it were updated and had more locations added. There are many very popular places that aren't included.

Not a bad application

2

By G5025

It's helpful but many of them are out dated. No updates.

Review

3

By Bradleyneil16

A must for expats who need to travel within China. Very useful!

Some of these reviews must be planted

2

By What the Junk

Not a bad app, but no real value either. The developer provides a static snapshot, but things change fast here. Data is out of date and there are no reviews. From the taxi book, you have no way of knowing if restaurant is any good or not. Not worth the money.

Wow!

5

By myninerides

I can hop in a taxi, tap on the card, and be anywhere in Chengdu. This is an app worth buying an iPhone for.

Purchases do not transfer

2

By BlazerDad10

Don't purchase in app if you need to use the app on more than one phone. The purchase won't transfer. Instead download the separate taxi book app for that city. This seems to be an Apple rule not maxxelli's taxi books poor service. Love the individual city apps! Just not this one :\